the stars, nay more like the sun. And I thought that I saw
Christian there. So I woke from my dream. But did I laugh?

Christiana:--Laugh! Yes, and so you might, to see how well off
you were! For you must give me leave to tell you, that as you
find the first part true, so you will find true the last.

Mercy:--Well, I am glad of my dream, for I hope ere long to see
it come to pass, so as to make me laugh once more.

Christiana:--I think it is now high time to rise, and to know
what we must do.

Mercy:--Pray, if they should ask us to stay, let us by all means
do so; for I should much like to know more of these maids. I
think Prudence, Piety, and Charity have, each of them, a most
choice mien.

Christiana:--We shall see what they will do.

So they came down.

Then Prudence and Piety: If you will stay, here you shall have
what the house will yield.

Charity:--Yes, and that with a good will.

So they were there some time, much to their good.

Prudence:--Christiana, I give you all praise, for you have